Chapter Ninety-Seven: Sighing Desert
Silver Mia, blue Lucia, and blood-colored Lilith, the three moonlights hung high in the night sky, and three moonlights sprinkled on the endless yellow sand, adding a bit of brilliant color to the desert in addition to the monotonous yellow. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info raised his head, and the cold wind that had been entrenched in the desert sky of sighing all the year round whistled by, and the powerful wind pressure carrying countless fine sand was like a huge invisible trap, and every grain of fine sand was like a sharp blade galloping at high speed, intending to tear apart any intruder who dared to enter the territory of the wind.
If you look down at the earth from the air, you can only see a pure golden yellow, stretching from your feet into the distance, undulating sand dunes one after another, which looks beautiful and intoxicating from a distance, but only when you are really in it, can you feel the horror peculiar to this land of death, which is arid, hot and terrifying, through this layer of horror, people can see only despair, irresistible despair. For more than 3,000 years, countless explorers have set foot in this world of death and despair, but the vast majority of them have completely collapsed in the endless sea of sand, turned into scattered bones buried in the desert, and then buried deep by the constantly flowing yellow sand, erasing the last trace left in the world.
If a traveler stands in the desert and looks around during the day, all they can see is the same sand dunes and yellow sand, they can't see the difference between them, they can't find a reference, they can't determine their own position, and they can't determine the direction of the target, the blazing sun is like a furnace gushing with flames, and the scorching hot wind is like a greedy demon burning all over the depths of hell, madly devouring the water in the body of the traveler, making people lose even the qualification to sweat and cool down, and the anxiety caused by not finding the way makes the water lose faster, and you can almost feel your body temperature rise once and again under the scorching sun。 Thirst and heat make the traveler can't help but want to seek refuge in water, but the long journey of getting lost has long since exhausted the last drop of water he carries, and it is impossible to find a water source.
Without water, the lost travelers could only continue to endure the pain of thirst and heat, and continued to trek under the will to survive, their lips gradually dried and cracked, and their throats began to ache like fire. I want to distract myself with other things, but unfortunately, there is not only no water in the Sigh Desert, but also no living creatures, birds in the sky, snakes and lizards on the ground, poisonous insects dormant in the sand, tall green cacti, all living things, there is none in the Sighing Desert, as far as the eye can see, only the yellow sand in the sky, monotonous, boring, not only can not distract the attention, but will only aggravate the despair in the heart.
Soon, the lost traveler will feel suffocated, nauseous, and weak, and all kinds of painful feelings will follow, and the vision in front of him will become more and more blurred, and the steps will become heavier and heavier. Perhaps, at the end of the day, in the sight of the Lost Knowledge, you will see an oasis of lush water and grass at the end of the sky, the clear lake rippling in the center of the oasis, sweet fruits growing everywhere, and even the inhabitants of the Land of Sand leading their livestock up and down the oasis, such a sight will make the lost see the hope of life in despair, be stimulated to the last drop of potential, walk in the direction of the oasis, and then ...... With a happy smile on his face, he sleeps forever in the sea of sand and never wakes up again.
This is the main reason why the Sigh Desert is called the most terrifying area in the Yala world, drought and lost, in this desert, most of the skills to discern the direction will fail, only a small number of people, know how to enter the desert and leave smoothly, these guides who have the ability to enter the desert, and even put the skills of surviving in the Sigh Desert into a set of regulations, which are passed on to each other, but even with these skills, there are still a few experienced guides every year, with the team that hired them, disappearing into the desert, never to return again。
However, no matter what attitude people use to look at the Desert of Sighs, whether it is fear, anger, or wanting to conquer it, it has no meaning for the Desert of Sighs, it still exists silently, without any change because of the will of the living beings, it is still like a seasoned and calm hunter, quietly waiting, waiting for the next prey to enter its own death trap in ignorance, waiting for the next victim to become a part of its body.
Among the survival skills of the Sigh Desert, the first one, and one that has been repeatedly emphasized by all those who think of it, is to rest during the day and act at night, for which the guides do not even need to explain the reason, as long as they walk into the Sigh Desert once, they will naturally understand the meaning of this principle.
The desert is as hot as hell during the day, and the yellow sand on the ground can even be used by Pannis to cook food, but at night, it immediately becomes cold and biting, and if you still stand in an open position in daytime clothes, it only takes a few hours, and you will be frozen into ice sculptures by the biting cold wind and lower and lower temperatures...... Never went back. However, there is a mainstream speculation in the academic community that the cold ice energy of the permafrost ice field in the east and the scorching energy from the death forest in the west are just converging in the sighing desert, and the two energies are entangled with each other, and no one can gain the upper hand, so this phenomenon of extreme heat during the day and extreme cold at night occurs, as for whether this speculation is true, no one has been able to give an accurate answer so far.
The desert at night, which is supposed to be silent, has no living beings, resulting in nothing but the sound of the wind. However, with the sound of blowing sand, a sand dune suddenly bulged out from under it, and in the midst of the yellow sand, a man suddenly came out from under the cover of the yellow sand, and if there were other people around, he might not have to endure the torture of the drought, and was directly frightened to death by this scene.
The person who emerges violently shakes its body and head in an effort to get rid of the grains of sand attached to its body, but this behavior is always reminiscent of some kind of animal that likes to make the same movements after falling into the water. After shaking off the sand, Pannis emerged from the yellow sand, still wearing the same white robe he had worn a few days ago when he met at the col in Vral, but now that the sun had just set, the temperature was still very high, and he avoided the doom of freezing to death.
"Damn sigh desert, that's what I hate the most. Pannis took off his boots, poured out a large amount of fine sand in his boots, raised his head and gestured at the moon with a few fingers for a while, and then nodded with satisfaction: "It's okay, let's walk for one more night today, and it will finally be over." ”
(To be continued.) )